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Youth Treaty
Action

These are some actions based on the previous commitments. The process of creating actions is open to more future proposals.

1. Education and Diffusion:

a) Distribute through the different media of communications, meetings, and debates, the experience of the events in Rio 92: the UNCED process and the Youth Treaty.

b) Work to raise environmental and social consciousness and environmental education, for example through:

• courses in capacity-building and youth leadership;
• regional seminars to research methods for maintaining unity and participation in organizations;
• exchanges between members of NGOs, social organizations, and political movements;
• grants for North-South exchanges;
• contests for creative ideas and concrete solutions for environmental problems;
• the elaboration of environmental education programs to be implemented by governments, etc.

2. Consumption Patterns: We commit ourselves to:

a) consciously reduce our personal consumption of products that invade the market and/or harm the environment, as well as adopt strategies to save energy;

b) favor campaigns that promote moderate consumption which is environmentally sustainable and supports regional economies, for example, international boycotts of large polluting enterprises.

3. Campaigns

We commit ourselves to jointly promote international campaigns related to the issues that were not addressed adequately at UNCED, for example:

• the rejection of the domination of the global economy by an elite based on the external debt of developing countries, transnational enterprises and their institutional accomplices, the World Bank, IMF, GATT, etc.
• against militarism, demanding that military spending be re-directed towards social and environmental ends.
• against the use of nuclear power and the abuse of fossil fuels.
• against hunger and unchecked over-consumption
• against the unnecessary use of pesticides
• against nuclear testing and in favor of the dismantlement of nuclear plants
• to demand the democratization of the organizations of the United Nations

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